BASAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BASAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2003
7-9 April 2003, Balliol College (University of Oxford)
Oxford OX1 3BJ, UK
BASAS annual conferences are noted for their friendliness, informality, and open interdisciplinary intellectual exchange.
The REGISTRATION deadline was Monday, 10 March 2003. Unfortunately, due to space restraints, registering on the day is NOT POSSIBLE.
- Full Programme & Abstracts
- AGM Agenda
- Queries
- BASAS Prize 2003
- Conference Participants
- Travel and Accommodation Details
- Postgraduate Bursaries and Accommodation
- Booking Form
FULL PROGRAMME
Please note: Registration and the conference will be held in the JOWETT WALK COMPLEX and NOT in Balliol College itself. See this map of Oxford city centre with the college and the conference venue clearly marked.
- You can collect your conference packs and check into your room (in the Jowett Walk complex) from 11am on Monday 7 April.
- The lunches, reception, and the conference dinner on Tuesday, 8 April, will be held in Balliol College itself.
Read full Abstracts of the papers listed below. Papers marked with an asterisk * are eligible for the BASAS Prize 2003.
MONDAY, 7th APRIL
- 11.00-2.00 Registration
- 2.00-4.00 PANEL: Partition: Refugees, Resettlement and Rehabilitation.
- Chair: Ian Talbot (University of Coventry) i.talbot@coventry.ac.uk
- Pippa Virdee (University of Coventry) The Impact of Refugee Labour on The Economies of Divided Punjab: A Case Study of Ludhiana and Lyallpur*
- Yasmin Khan (St Anthony's, University of Oxford) Creating the Secular State: Reactions to Partition Refugees in Uttar Pradesh*
- Nila Chatterjee (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Interrogating Victimhood: East Bengali refugee Narratives of Communal Violence
- Ravinder Kaur (Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen) Claiming Community through Narratives: Punjabi Refugees in Delhi
- 4.00-4.30 Coffee/Tea
- 4.30-6.00 PANEL: Hindu Nationalism and the BJP
- Chair: Andrew Wyatt (University of Bristol) A.K.J.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk
- Discussant: John Zavos (University of Manchester)
- John Pincince (University of Hawai'i) Before the BJP: V.D. Savarkar and Hindu National Identity*
- Edward Simpson (London School of Economics) Putting nationalism into the landscape: Rebuilding after the Gujarat earthquake
- 6.15-7.15 BASAS Executive Committee Meeting
- 7.15-8.30 Reception
- 9.00 Dinner
TUESDAY, 8th APRIL
- 9-10.30 PANEL: Gender and the South Asian Diaspora
- Chair: Nirmal Puwar (University College Northampton) nirmal.puwar@northampton.ac.uk
- Hasmita Ramji (City University) Engendering diasporic identities
- Rani Kawale (University of North London) 'A Kiss is Just a Kiss'... or is it? South Asian lesbian and bisexual women and the construction of space
- Tej Purewal (Manchester) Son Preference in the Diaspora: Gendering the Debate
- 10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea
- 11.00-1.00 PANEL: Economic liberalisation, labour and politics
- Chair: Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes University) psingh@brookes.ac.uk
- Nandini Gooptu (Queen Elisabeth House, University of Oxford) Economic liberalisation, workers and politics in Calcutta jute mill areas
- Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) The Love of Labour: Seasonal Migration from a Jharkhandi Village to Brick Kilns in West Bengal*
- Ben Rogaly (School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia) Comparative political economy of seasonal migration: contrasting the life worlds of migrant workers in rural west Bengal and south Gujarat
- Geert de Neve (University of Sussex) Recruitment, Skill Acquisition and Child Labour in the South Indian Garment Industry: local shifts under global conditions
- 1.00-2.15 Buffet Lunch
- 2.15-4.15 PANEL: Rethinking Diaspora
- Chair: Parvati Raghuram (Nottingham Trent University) parvati.raghuram@ntu.ac.uk
- Nandi Bhatia (University of Western Ontario) Cultural Identity and the Indian Diaspora
- Shaminder Takhar (South Bank University) South Asian Women and Political Agency
- Nayanika Mookherjee (University of Sussex) In Pursuit of the 'Authentic' Bengali: Impressions and Observation of Contested Diaspora
- Samina Zahar (Nottingham Trent University) Reclamation: Regeneration*
- 4.15-4.45 Coffee/Tea
- 4.45-6.15 PANEL: Regional expressions of Hindutva
- Chair: Marie Lall (Institute of Education, University of London) m.lall@sta03.ioe.ac.uk
- Joe Arun (Campion Hall, University of Oxford) The Anti-conversion Law in Tamil Nadu and Hindu Fundamentalism
- Andrew Wyatt (University of Bristol) The BJP in Tamil Nadu: Pursuing National Ambitions in a Regional Setting
- Lucia Michelutti (London School of Economics) Different gods for different political agendas: the symbolism of Ram and Krishna in Uttar Pradesh politics
- 6.15-7.15 BASAS AGM and elections to the Executive Committee 2003-2004.
- 7.45/8.00 Conference Dinner in Balliol College Hall featuring plenary speaker Judith M Brown, Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford
WEDNESDAY, 9th APRIL
- 9-10.30 PANEL: South Asian History
- Chair: Katharine Adeney (Balliol College, University of Oxford) katharine.adeney@balliol.oxford.ac.uk
- Kim A. Wagner (University of Cambridge) The deconstructed stranglers — reassessing the postcolonial account of thuggee*
- Boria Majumdar (University of Oxford) The politics of cricket in colonial Bengal: 1880-1947: Invocation of a lost History*
- Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago) Father Of The Bride: Debates On Dowry In Urban Colonial Bengal*
- 10-30-11.00 Coffee/Tea
- 11.00-1.00 PANEL: The Political Economy of Policy Reform in South Asia'
- Chair: Roli Asthana (London School of Economics) R.Asthana@lse.ac.uk
- Alan Bullion (Open University) Globalization, South Asian agriculture and the WTO
- Lawrence Sáez (London School of Economics & University of Oxford) and Aseema Sinha (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Decentralization, Economic Reform, and Local Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indian States
- Mushtaq Husain Khan (School of Oriental and African Studies) Agrarian Productivity and Political Power: Primitive Accumulation in Bangladeshi Agriculture
- Khalid Nadvi (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex) Globalisation and the Challenges for Bangladesh's Garment Industry
- 1.00-2.15 Buffet Lunch
- 2.15-4.15 PANEL: 'Fundamentalism' and Nationalism in South Asia
- Chair: Iftikhar Malik (Bath Spa University) i.malik@bathspa.ac.uk
- Amalendu Misra (Queen's University) The Future of Radical Islam in Afghanistan
- Jon P. Dorschner (United States Military Academy) The Pakistan Army: Larger than Life
- Iftikhar Malik (Bath Spa University) Jihad, Hindutva and Talebanisation: Religion and Majoritarian Nationalisms in South Asia
- 4.15 Conference disperses
Read full Abstracts of the papers listed above.
AGM AGENDA
Click here to go to the full AGM AGENDA, including list of Elected Offices and Nomination Form.
QUERIES
Please direct general conference queries to the Conference Organiser:
Katharine Adeney
Balliol College
Oxford University
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BJ
UK
Fax: +44-(0)1865 277803
Email: katharine.adeney@balliol.ox.ac.uk
BASAS PRIZE 2003
The BASAS Prize 2003 will be awarded for the best paper presented by a registered post-graduate student. Contact BASAS Secretary Dr Graham Chapman for further details. The paper will be considered for publication in Contemporary South Asia.
Dr Graham Chapman
BASAS Secretary
Department of Geography
University of Lancaster
Lancaster LA1 4YW
UK
Tel: +44-(0)1524-6520
Fax: +44(0)1524-____
Email: g.chapman@lancaster.ac.uk
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
| Name | Surname | Institutional Affiliation* | E-Mail Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katharine | Adeney | Balliol, Oxford | katharine.adeney@balliol.oxford.ac.uk |
| Vibha | Arora | Linacre, Oxford | vibha.arora@linacre.oxford.ac.uk |
| Joe | Arun | Campion, Oxford | joe.arun@campion.ox.ac.uk |
| Roli | Asthana | LSE | r.asthana@lse.ac.uk |
| Yusuf | Baig | Pakistan Link | yabaiguk@yahoo.co.uk |
| Apratim | Barua | SOAS | 117111@soas.ac.uk |
| Nandi | Bhatia | Western Ontario | nbhatia2@uwo.ca |
| Richard | Bingle | British Library (Retd) | |
| Judith | Brown | Balliol, Oxford | judith.brown@balliol.ox.ac.uk |
| Alan | Bullion | Open | Alan.Bullion@Informa.Com |
| Michael | Carrington | Coventry | mcarrington@mcarrington.screaming.net |
| Graham | Chapman | Lancaster | g.chapman@lancaster.ac.uk |
| Nilanjana | Chatterjee | North Carolina | chatterj@email.unc.edu |
| Pervez | Cheema | Islamabad Policy Research Unit | picheema@ipri-pak.org |
| Zafar | Cheema | St Antony's, Oxford | zafar.cheema@sant.ox.ac.uk |
| Marieke | Clarke | Oxfam (Retd) | mariekefclarke@pop3.poptel.org.uk |
| Frank | Conlon | Washington (Retd) | conlon@u.washington.edu |
| Daniel | Coppard | East Anglia | D.Coppard@uea.ac.uk |
| William | Crawley | Indo-British Historical Society | crawleywilliam@btopenworld.com |
| Geert | De Neve | Sussex | g.r.de-neve@sussex.ac.uk |
| Nitasha | Devasar | OUP, India | nitasha.devasar@oup.com |
| Jon | Dorschner | US Military Academy | jj4081@usma.edu |
| Sagarika | Dutt | Nottingham Trent | Sagarika.Dutt@ntu.ac.uk |
| Pat | Ellis | East London | PatEllis@compuserve.com |
| Paul | Flather | Mansfield, Oxford | paul.flather@europaeum.ox.ac.uk |
| Nandini | Gooptu | QEH, Oxford | nandini.gooptu@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
| Sana | Haroon | SOAS | sana_haroon@yahoo.com |
| Tom | Harrison | Oxford | |
| Barbara | Harriss-White | QEH, Oxford | barbara.harriss@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
| Zubair | Hayat | Pakistan High Commission | zubairhayat@hotmail.com |
| Mark | Holmstrom | East Anglia (Retd) | holmstrom99@yahoo.co.uk |
| Lakshmi | Holmstrom | Independent writer and translator | holmstrom99@yahoo.co.uk |
| Andrew | Humphries | Blackwells | andrew.humphries@ oxon.blackwellpublishing.com |
| Maria | Izzara | European Parliament | jizarra@europarl.eu.int |
| Gurjit | Kaur | SOAS | gurjit_kaur@hotmail.com |
| Ravinder | Kaur | Copenhagen | rka@cdr.dk |
| Rani | Kawale | East London | ranikawale@yahoo.co.uk |
| Yasmin | Khan | St Antony's, Oxford | yasmin.khan@st-antonys.oxford.ac.uk |
| Shehla | Khan | Manchester | msrgjsk3@stud.man.ac.uk |
| Mushtaq | Khan | SOAS | mk17@soas.ac.uk |
| Nida | Kirmani | Manchester | nidkirm@hotmail.com |
| Anja | Kovacs | East Anglia | A.Kovacs@uea.ac.uk |
| Avinash | Kumar | SOAS | avinash332@rediffmail.com |
| Apurba | Kundu | Bradford | a.kundu@bradford.ac.uk |
| Marie | Lall | IOE, London | M.Lall@sta03.ioe.ac.uk |
| Siobhan | Lambert-Hurley | Nottingham Trent | siobhan.lambert-hurley@ntu.ac.uk |
| Bryan | Maddox | East Anglia | b.maddox@uea.ac.uk |
| Rochona | Majumdar | Chicago | rochonam@yahoo.com |
| Boria | Majumdar | St John's, Oxford | cristorian@yahoo.com |
| Iftikhar | Malik | Bath | i.malik@bathspa.ac.uk |
| Emma | Mawdsley | Durham | e.e.mawdsley@durham.ac.uk |
| Matthew | McCartney | SOAS | mm80@soas.ac.uk |
| Lucia | Michuletti | LSE | l.michelutti1@lse.ac.uk |
| Amalendu | Misra | Queens | misra.a@qub.ac.uk |
| Nayanika | Mookerjee | Sussex | nayanikam@hotmail.com |
| Khalid | Nadvi | Sussex | K.M.Nadvi@ids.ac.uk |
| Annie | Nason | Birmingham | annienason@aol.com |
| Marie | Ostlund | Wales | mo@pamho.net |
| John | Pincince | Hawaii | jrp@hawaii.edu |
| David | Potter | Open | |
| Avril | Powell | SOAS | ap5@soas.ac.uk |
| Dara | Price | Balliol, Oxford | dara.price@balliol.ox.ac.uk |
| Tej | Purewal | Manchester | tej.purewal@man.ac.uk |
| Nirmal | Puwar | Northampton | nirmal.puwar@northampton.ac.uk |
| Parvati | Raghuram | Nottingham Trent | parvati.raghuram@ntu.ac.uk |
| Shirin | Rai | Warwick | Shirin.Rai@warwick.ac.uk |
| Kanta Kaur | Rhodes | St Antony's, Oxford | kanta.rhodes@sant.ox.ac.uk |
| Ben | Rogaly | East Anglia | b.rogaly@uea.ac.uk |
| Orlanda | Ruthven | QEH, Oxford | orlanda.ruthven@wolfson.ox.ac.uk |
| Lawrence | Saez | Oxford and LSE | lawrence.saez@st-antonys.oxford.ac.uk |
| Yunas | Samad | Bradford | a.y.samad@Bradford.ac.uk |
| Bobby | Sayyid | Salford | s.sayyid@salford.ac.uk |
| Christiane | Schlote | Humboldt | chschlote@web.de |
| Kunal | Sen | East Anglia | k.sen@uea.ac.uk |
| Alpa | Shah | LSE | a.shah1@lse.ac.uk |
| Tasleem | Shakur | Edgehill College | Shakurt@edgehill.ac.uk |
| Mitra | Sharafi | Princeton | mitrasharafi@yahoo.com |
| Vanita | Sharma | St Antony's, Oxford | vanita.sharma@history.oxford.ac.uk |
| Edward | Simpson | LSE | E.L.Simpson@lse.ac.uk |
| Pritam | Singh | Oxford Brookes | psingh@brookes.ac.uk |
| Gerald | Studdert-Kennedy | Birmingham | |
| Shaminder | Takhar | South Bank | takhars@sbu.ac.uk |
| Ian | Talbot | Coventry | i.talbot@coventry.ac.uk |
| Pippa | Virdee | Coventry | 2pippa@another.com |
| Kim | Wagner | Cambridge | kaw32@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
| Thomas M | Walle | NOVA | tmw@nova.no |
| Maya | Warrier | Wales | m.warrier@lamp.ac.uk |
| David | Washbrook | St Antony's, Oxford | david.washbrook@sant.ox.ac.uk |
| Andrew | Wyatt | Bristol | A.K.J.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk |
| Samina | Zahir | Nottingham Trent | samina_zahir@hotmail.com |
| John | Zavos | Manchester | john.zavos@man.ac.uk |
| * Denotes a university unless otherwise stated. | |||
TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION DETAILS
The BASAS Annual Conference 2003 will take place in Balliol College (University of Oxford), Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BJ, UK
TRAVEL INFORMATION
- How to get to the University of Oxford.
- NB: A bus goes direct to Oxford from London airports Heathrow and Gatwick; see http://www.theairline.info/
- Clickable map of the University of Oxford showing colleges
- Balliol College website
- Oxford City Tourist Information Centre website
ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION
- You can collect your conference packs and check into your room (in the JOWETT WALK COMPLEX) from 11am on Monday 7 April. See this map of Oxford city centre with the college and the conference venue clearly marked.
- The Jowett Walk complex is a 15 minute walk from the train station (on the left of your map) but there are taxi ranks at the station. It is a 10 minute walk from the bus station. However, if you are coming on a bus from London or from the airports then you are advised to leave the bus at the HIGH STREET stop and walk up to the conference venue via Longwal Street. This is in the bottom right hand of map of Oxford city centre with the college and the conference venue clearly marked.
- Please note: Registration and the conference will be held in the Jowett Walk complex, while lunches, reception, and the conference dinner on Tuesday, 8 April, will be held in Balliol College itself. (Lunch on Monday, 7 April, is NOT provided in the cost of registration. This is because many participants would not arrive in time to eat it, and/or would have had lunch on the train. It also enabled us to keep the registration costs as low as possible. There is a sandwich shop in the immediate vicinity, and 5 minutes walk away Oxford city centre boasts the usual treats - McDonalds, Sainsbury's, Pret A Manger.)
POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES and ACCOMMODATION
There are a limited number of bursaries of for postgraduate students who present a paper at the conference.
There are also a very limited number of cheaper accommodation places for postgraduate students. Students need not present a paper to qualify for this accommodation.
For further details, please see the Conference Booking Form.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, 10 MARCH 2003.
BOOKING FORM
Click here to go to the Conference Conference Booking Form.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, 10 MARCH 2003.
BASAS gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for this conference from the Oxford University Faculty of Oriental Studies Sub-Faculty of South and Inner Asian Studies